The Hindu : Tamil Nadu / Tiruchi News : Sustained flow of relief materials

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Wednesday, Dec 29, 2004

Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu - Tiruchi

Sustained flow of relief materials

By Our Staff Reporter

TIRUCHI, DEC. 28 . An effective coordination between the district administration and service organisations has resulted in a sustained flow of relief materials from Tiruchi to the battered coastal district of Nagapattinam.

The relief materials, particularly food packets, clothes, and water satchets, mobilised by social organisations and philanthropists, are consolidated by the district administration and despatched through lorries. The food packets were being prepared by a conglomeration of social organisations at different places.

Exnora International, Tamil Nadu Consumer Federation, the Sri Sai Vidya Mandir, Varaganeri Jamath, Nambikkai Nanbargal Iyakkam, Nanbargal Iyakkam, self-help-groups of Gramalaya and students of K.A.P. Viswanathan Higher Secondary School and R.C. Higher Secondary School got their act together in preparing about 7,500 packets of tamarind rice on Monday and Tuesday. Forty bags of rice were used in the process.

While substantial money and material were provided by Cethar Vessels, the food was prepared by chefs of Hotel Royal Southern, at a marriage hall near the Gandhi Market. They look forward to traders to supply them with cardboard boxes for packing the food. At Kamaraj Nagar near the airport, the public pooled their resources to prepare about 25,000 chappatis and also collected clothes and relief materials. The materials were despatched to Nagapattinam from the Circuit House under the supervision of senior officials of the district administration.

Apart from this, the Musiri Nagar Anaithu Vyaparigal Sangam sent a lorry load of 50 bags of rice, 300 mats, 5,000 satchets of water, used dresses and vessels to Nagapattinam. The Activists for Social Alternatives Grama Vidiyal has set aside Rs.25 lakhs from its operating income for relief measures. Over 300 of its staff members are to participate in the relief operations from December 29. It is in the process of networking other agencies to reach out to a minimum of 15,000 affected persons, and has suspended its day-to-day operations for a week to concentrate on relief measures.

The Lions International District 324 A2 sent five lorry loads of materials, rice, biscuits and clothes to Nagapattinam, for distribution of the same to the affected people through its local club. It has installed a box, `Thuyar Thudaikkum Petti', at Mainguard Gate (front of Sumathi Publications), to collect whatever is donated by households on an individual basis, said its District Chairman, T.G.R. Vasantha Kumar.

KMC Hospital in the city has despatched four ambulances to Nagapattinam for the relief operations. Besides deputing paramedical staff equipped with medicines, syringes, facial masks, hand gloves and vaccines, the hospital management has also donated Rs.1 lakh for the Chief Minister's Public Relief Fund.

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